Python - convert strings into json and combine

Question

I h've two strings got from an api url

pagehandle = urllib2.urlopen(ariel_url+"?%s"  % params1)
data1 = pagehandle.read(); 
pagehandle = urllib2.urlopen(ariel_url+"?%s"  % params2)
data2 = pagehandle.read(); 

data1 and data2 contain the following string

{"priority":"HIGH", "titles":["Brand", "Likes"], "values":[["addidas", 130],["nike", 180]]}

{"priority":"HIGH", "titles":["Brand", "Likes"], "values":[["iphone", 49],["ipod", 590]]}

I want to convert these two strings into json and combine (or combine strings and then convert) in such a way that output json may like

{"priority":"HIGH", "titles":["Brand", "Likes"], "values":[["addidas", 130],["nike", 180],["iphone", 49],["ipod", 590]]]}

How can i do this? i prefer to use simplejson library

Answer 1

These are not strings, but dictionaries. You can combine those dictionary like this:

def combine(dict1, dict2):
    if dict1['priority'] == dict2['priority'] and dict1['titles'] == dict2['titles']:
        return {
            'priority': dict1['priority'],
            'titles': dict1['titles'],
            'values': dict1['values'] + dict2['values']
        }

after that you simply run:

import json
json.dumps(combine(dict1, dict2))

and you'll get a json of those two combined dictionaries.

EDIT

So I understand is what you really got is:

s1 = '{"priority":"HIGH", "titles":["Brand", "Likes"], values:[["addidas", 130],["nike", 180]]}'

s2 = '{"priority":"HIGH", "titles":["Brand", "Likes"], values:[["iphone", 49],["ipod", 590]]}'

In this case you can run:

dict1 = json.loads(s1)
dict2 = json.loads(s2)
result = combine(dict1, dict2)